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* Zoning

  • Soft zoning restricts only the fabric name service, to show only an allowed subset of devices. Therefore, when a server looks at the content of the fabric, it will only see the devices it is allowed to see.
  • Hard zoning restricts actual communication across a fabric. This requires efficient hardware implementation (frame filtering) in the fabric switches, but is much more secure.
  • Port zoning restricts specific switch ports from seeing unauthorized ports.
  • WWN zoning (also called name zoning) restricts access by a device's World Wide Name (WWN)

* LUN masking

  • Authorization process that makes a Logical Unit Number available to some hosts and unavailable to other hosts.

* Components

  • Storage processors – control access to SAN disks
  • Ports
    • Front-end – connect to HBA
    • Back-end – connect to storage array
san.txt · Last modified: 2017/10/27 01:09 by 127.0.0.1